HISTORY of FFFractionation

Field-Flow Fractionation was invented in 1966 by Prof. Calvin Giddings [1]
at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. He was an outstanding scientist
who published a great number of scientific articles and books in the area of
Field-Flow Fractionation and in general separation science as well. Prof.
Giddings was twice nominated for the Nobel-Price in 1984 and in 1994. He
founded the Field-Flow Fractionation Research Center / FFFresearch Center at
University of Utah and developed the complete theory of Field-Flow
Fractionation.

In 1986, Prof. Giddings and some of his co-workers founded the legendary
company FFFractionation, Inc. in Salt Lake City. FFFractionation was the
first company established in the area of Field-Flow Fractionation and
introduced the world’s first commercial Field-Flow Fractionation instruments.
The first Thermal Field-Flow Fractionation (Model T100), Sedimentation
Field-Flow Fractionation (Model S101), Flow Field-Flow Fractionation (Model
F1000) and Split Flow Thin Cell Fractionation (Model SF1000 SPLITT) were
also introduced by FFFractionation [2,3,4,5].

FFFractionation has been the innovator in Field-Flow Fractionation since its
foundation. Over the years FFFractionation introduced many benchmarking
innovations in Field-Flow Fractionation and filed many patents in this area.
FFFractionation has been the main promoter to commercially establish the
Field-Flow Fractionation technology and to bring it to the high
sophisticated level it has reached today. In 2001 FFFractionation merged
together with Postnova Analytics to form the world-leading company in the
area of Field-Flow Fractionation.